Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.

If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.

I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

Every dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time.

A dinner! How horrible! I am to be made the pretext for killing all those wretched animals and birds, and fish! Thank you for nothing. Now if it were to be a fast instead of a feast; say a solemn three days' abstention from corpses in my honour, I could at least pretend to believe that it was disinterested. Blood sacrifices are not in my line